Chris Burdick

Prime-sponsored a bill expanding a residential care program for young adults with serious medical conditions from two facilities to four (A7511). Governor Hochul vetoed it on 2023-12-22.

December 22, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2023-11-17, requiring long-term care insurers to warn policyholders about premium increases and the state to post rate requests for public comment (A345C).

November 17, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: nysenate.gov

Prime-sponsored a bill banning the use of oil and gas well brine and drilling fluids on roads, including for de-icing (A4725B). It passed both houses, but Governor Hochul vetoed it on 2025-12-05.

December 5, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: nysenate.gov

Prime-sponsored a bill letting local governments with wetland protection laws ban pesticide spraying on those wetlands (A6930). Governor Hochul vetoed it on 2025-12-05. He had filed versions of it in the two prior sessions.

December 5, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: nysenate.gov

Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2024-09-27, requiring home sellers to give buyers a health pamphlet on septic systems and list septic care details on disclosure forms (A9330A).

September 27, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: nysenate.gov

Voted yes on the Climate Change Superfund Act (S2129B). It makes companies that released large amounts of greenhouse gases pay a share of climate adaptation costs. It passed the Assembly 92-49.

June 8, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health

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While Bedford town supervisor, was elected co-chair of Sustainable Westchester, a group of local governments sharing services and cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

April 9, 2015Supports Environment and Public Health

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Prime-sponsored a bill requiring the state to decide unemployment claims within 30 days of getting complete paperwork (A3068). It passed both houses by 2026-05-29.

May 29, 2026Supports Labor Rights

Source: nysenate.gov

Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2024-12-13, requiring the state prison system to keep a yearly plan protecting incarcerated people and staff from extreme heat (A9169).

December 13, 2024Supports Labor Rights

Source: nysenate.gov

Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2023-09-14, requiring employers to give written notice of the right to file for unemployment when they end a job or cut hours (A398A).

September 14, 2023Supports Labor Rights

Source: nysenate.gov

Called on Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign after the Attorney General's report found he sexually harassed multiple women. He also urged the Assembly to impeach Cuomo if he refused.

August 3, 2021Supports Anti-Corruption

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Prime-sponsored a bill requiring the state to decide unemployment claims within 30 days of getting complete paperwork (A3068). It passed both houses by 2026-05-29.

May 29, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

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Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2023-12-22, requiring state agency websites to meet current web accessibility standards for people with disabilities (A266).

December 22, 2023Supports Government Efficiency

Source: nysenate.gov

Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2021-12-10, requiring the state to post when competency exams are offered to out-of-state home care workers, to ease worker shortages (A4662A).

December 10, 2021Supports Government Efficiency

Source: nysenate.gov

Pressed the state Transportation Department, with Senator Pete Harckham, to repave Route 35 from Katonah to South Salem. The state then scheduled the $4.15 million project.

September 19, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: nyassembly.gov

Voted yes on a bill on COVID-19 eviction and foreclosure protections that also created an emergency rental assistance program (S50001). It passed the Assembly 81-60.

September 1, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2025-10-27, creating a school-zone speed camera pilot program in White Plains through 2030 (A8166A).

October 27, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2023-12-22, requiring high-rise building owners to keep emergency evacuation plans for people with disabilities, with fines up to $500 (A6291A).

December 22, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: nysenate.gov

Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2022-11-23, widening the definition of a sex crime against children (sexual conduct against a child in the third degree, A7079C).

November 23, 2022Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Prime-sponsored the Criminal Court Opinion Transparency Act (A4674A), which passed both houses by 2026-06-02. It orders a court report on publishing trial-court rulings on suppressing evidence.

June 2, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: nysenate.gov

Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2024-12-13, requiring the state prison system to keep a yearly plan protecting incarcerated people and staff from extreme heat (A9169).

December 13, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: nysenate.gov

Voted yes on the Clean Slate Act (A1029C), which automatically seals certain criminal convictions after a set waiting period. It passed the Assembly 82-65.

June 9, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: nyassembly.gov

Voted yes on the law legalizing adult-use marijuana in New York (Marihuana Regulation and Taxation Act, S854A). It passed the Assembly 94-56.

March 30, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: nyassembly.gov

Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2021-11-15, letting the state Housing Finance Agency buy construction loans for modular and manufactured homes on bank-owned land (A7719).

November 15, 2021Supports Housing Affordability

Source: nysenate.gov

Voted yes on a bill on COVID-19 eviction and foreclosure protections that also created an emergency rental assistance program (S50001). It passed the Assembly 81-60.

September 1, 2021Supports Housing Affordability

Source: nyassembly.gov

As Bedford town supervisor, announced the town's settlement of a federal fair-housing lawsuit. Bedford paid $165,000 and ended a housing preference system that the suing groups said shut out Black applicants, while denying wrongdoing.

June 27, 2018Supports Housing Affordability

Source: westfaironline.com

Prime-sponsored a bill requiring utilities to accept public assistance payments, including home energy aid (A10160A). It passed both houses on 2026-06-03.

June 3, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: nysenate.gov

Voted yes on a bill on COVID-19 eviction and foreclosure protections that also created an emergency rental assistance program (S50001). It passed the Assembly 81-60.

September 1, 2021Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: nyassembly.gov

Joined lawmakers and child care providers in calling on Governor Cuomo to extend pandemic child care waivers for families and providers.

August 2, 2021Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: nyassembly.gov

Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2022-08-17, requiring schools to tell parents the same day when a student with a disability is restrained or put in a time-out room (A8540A).

August 17, 2022Supports Public Education Quality

Source: nysenate.gov

Joined six Westchester Assembly members in pressing the state Health Department for more flexibility to bring students back to in-person school.

February 18, 2021Supports Public Education Quality

Source: nyassembly.gov

Voted yes on Francesco's Law (A1962), which sets penalties for failing to safely store guns around children or people barred from having guns. It passed the Assembly 93-46 in 2025 and 88-47 in 2026.

June 11, 2025Supports Gun Control

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Voted yes on a bill changing New York's gun licensing rules and other firearm laws (S51001). It passed the Assembly 90-52.

July 1, 2022Supports Gun Control

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Voted yes on a bill shielding New York reproductive health providers from arrest, extradition and lawsuits in other states over care for out-of-state patients (S1066B). It passed the Assembly 98-47.

June 20, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted yes on a state constitutional amendment banning discrimination based on ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, sex, pregnancy and reproductive health care, among other traits (A1283). It passed the Assembly 97-46.

January 24, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

Source: nyassembly.gov

Prime-sponsored the FIRE HATE Act (A10094A), signed into law on 2022-06-13. It lets people sue in New York if someone interferes with their legal abortion or gender-affirming care here.

June 13, 2022Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

Source: nysenate.gov

Prime-sponsored a bill creating a voluntary state training and certification program to help employers include neurodiverse workers (A38). It passed both houses on 2026-06-04.

June 4, 2026Supports Civil Rights

Source: nysenate.gov

Prime-sponsored the Traveling with Dignity Act (A6219B), which passed both houses by 2026-06-02. It requires adult changing tables in large amusement venues and state buildings.

June 2, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Prime-sponsored a bill creating a 16-member state task force to expand jobs for people with disabilities (A33). Governor Hochul vetoed it on 2025-12-05.

December 5, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2024-12-21, requiring hospital intake forms to ask patients whether they need disability accommodations (A8560A).

December 21, 2024Supports Civil Rights

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Won Assembly passage on 2024-06-03 of his bill requiring local governments to add a gender "X" option on their forms and data systems (A8241B). It stalled in a Senate committee.

June 3, 2024Supports Civil Rights

Source: nysenate.gov

Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2023-12-22, requiring state agency websites to meet current web accessibility standards for people with disabilities (A266).

December 22, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: nysenate.gov

Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2023-12-22, requiring high-rise building owners to keep emergency evacuation plans for people with disabilities, with fines up to $500 (A6291A).

December 22, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: nysenate.gov

Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2023-10-05, letting people with disabilities and disabled veterans in full- or part-time state jobs qualify for a special state hiring program (A6480).

October 5, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: nysenate.gov

Voted yes on a state constitutional amendment banning discrimination based on ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, sex, pregnancy and reproductive health care, among other traits (A1283). It passed the Assembly 97-46.

January 24, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: nyassembly.gov

Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2022-10-04, expanding state purchasing preferences for groups that employ people who are blind, disabled or veterans (A8549C).

October 4, 2022Supports Civil Rights

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Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2022-10-04, creating a voluntary state training and certification program for employers in the EmployAbility hiring effort for people with disabilities (A8915B).

October 4, 2022Supports Civil Rights

Source: nysenate.gov

Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2022-08-17, requiring schools to tell parents the same day when a student with a disability is restrained or put in a time-out room (A8540A).

August 17, 2022Supports Civil Rights

Source: nysenate.gov

Prime-sponsored the FIRE HATE Act (A10094A), signed into law on 2022-06-13. It lets people sue in New York if someone interferes with their legal abortion or gender-affirming care here.

June 13, 2022Supports Civil Rights

Source: nysenate.gov

Voted yes on the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York (S1046E). It lets voters sue over rules that deny or weaken their right to vote and adds help for language minorities. It passed the Assembly 106-43.

June 2, 2022Supports Civil Rights

Source: nyassembly.gov

As chair of the Assembly subcommittee on jobs for people with disabilities, helped release a nine-bill package to raise employment of people with disabilities.

January 24, 2022Supports Civil Rights

Source: nyassembly.gov

As Bedford town supervisor, announced the town's settlement of a federal fair-housing lawsuit. Bedford paid $165,000 and ended a housing preference system that the suing groups said shut out Black applicants, while denying wrongdoing.

June 27, 2018Supports Civil Rights

Source: westfaironline.com

Won Assembly passage on 2026-05-12 of his bill requiring utilities to file rate increase requests on a standard template showing costs and bill impacts (A10534A).

May 12, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Announced opposition, with Assembly members Levenberg and Shimsky, to the Con Edison rate-case settlement, saying its rates were still too high.

November 14, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Called on the Public Service Commission to reject NYSEG's request for a 23.7% electric and 33.5% gas delivery rate hike.

July 2, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Became a formal party (intervenor) in Con Edison's electric and gas rate cases before the state Public Service Commission to fight proposed rate hikes.

May 5, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted yes on the Climate Change Superfund Act (S2129B). It makes companies that released large amounts of greenhouse gases pay a share of climate adaptation costs. It passed the Assembly 92-49.

June 8, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: nyassembly.gov

Prime-sponsored a law, signed on 2023-11-17, requiring long-term care insurers to warn policyholders about premium increases and the state to post rate requests for public comment (A345C).

November 17, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: nysenate.gov

Pressed the state Transportation Department, with Senator Pete Harckham, to repave Route 35 from Katonah to South Salem. The state then scheduled the $4.15 million project.

September 19, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: nyassembly.gov

Voted yes on a state constitutional amendment moving many local and judicial elections outside New York City to even-numbered years (S5711C). It passed the Assembly 82-52.

June 5, 2026

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Received the endorsement of Citizen Action of New York for his 2026 race for Assembly District 93.

April 3, 2026

Source: citizenactionny.org

Voted yes on the Medical Aid in Dying Act (A136), which lets terminally ill patients request and use medication for medical aid in dying. It passed the Assembly 81-67.

April 29, 2025

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Voted no, breaking with most Assembly Democrats, on a companion bill changing the rules for incorporating new villages (S7538). It passed the Assembly 86-49.

June 10, 2023

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Voted no, breaking with most Assembly Democrats, on a bill creating a state commission to review and decide on proposals to form new villages (S7537). It passed the Assembly 83-52.

June 10, 2023

Source: nyassembly.gov